The Reign of ‘Emma’ and ‘Liam’ Continues
New data on the most popular baby names of 2018 reveal that long vowels and smooth consonants ruled once again—while the very ’80s name of an actual royal made a resurgence.
The age of Emma is not over yet. On Friday morning, the Social Security Administration released data on the most popular baby names of 2018 in the United States, and perched atop the list of popular names for girls—as it has been for the past five years—is Emma.
The rest of the top 10, in descending order, are Olivia, Ava, Isabella, Sophia, Charlotte, Mia, Amelia, Harper, and Evelyn; the top five names, it’s worth noting, hew closely to the 2017 trend toward names for baby girls made up of 50 percent vowels or more—a trend , whose first name is 75 percent vowels. The name , 10th on the overall popularity rankings in 2017, dropped one slot to No. 11 and has been replaced in the top 10 by Harper, which
